Quotes with power

Quotes 801 till 820 of 958.

  • Charles Caleb Colton To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Marcus Aurelius To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Rita Mae Brown To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Plutarch To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin To me the ''female principle'' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Thomas Malthus To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) V, 25, 4-5
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Barbara Deming To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Eric Hoffer To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Norman Thomas To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
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  • Peter F. Drucker Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • John Berger Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why - but the editorialists forget it - terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Carlo Ratti Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Barack Obama Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
    Speech Chicago 04-11-2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Leo Buscaglia Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Ben Foster Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • John W. Gardner True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Milan Kundera True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Jules Renard Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Beilby Porteus Twas not enough By subtle fraud to snatch a single life; Puny impiety! whole kingdoms fell To sate the lust of power: more horrid still, The foulest stain and scandal of our nature, Became its boast. One murder made a villain; Millions a hero.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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